oint
To anoint.
Verb
- To anoint.
- They oint their naked limbs with mothered oil. - 1697, Virgil, “The Third Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob...
- to make his excuse more likely, he caused his legges to be ointed and swathed, and lively counterfeted the behaviour and countenance of a goutie man. - 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 25, in John Florio, transl., The...
Origin
From Middle English ointen, from Anglo-Norman oint or Old French oint, past participle of oindre, from Latin unguere.